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Recent ARCS Events

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  • Jan and Dan Katayama ARCS Scholar of the Year Mason Russo, ARCS Honolulu Co-President Wendy Lagareta, George and Mona Elmore ARCS Scholar of the Year Nicholas Saunders

  • Honolulu ARCS Scholars at 2024 Scholar Research Presentation Symposium at University of Hawai‘i at Manoa

  • College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources scholars Jordie Ho, Ben Wiseman and Mason Russo

  • College of Engineering scholars, faculty and families

  • John A. Burns School of Medicine scholars with family and advisors

  • College of Natural Sciences scholars

  • School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology scholars

  • Scholar of the Year Nicholas Saunders with ARCS member Joan Yanagihara

  • Nicholas Saunders

  • Scholar of the Year Mason Russo

  • ARCS Scholars and Scientist of the Year and their moms

  • Julia Douglas and her mother

  • Ku‘i and Puna Keliipuleole

  • Jordie and Bryson Ho

  • Patty Lee with Lucas Ellison and Camille Welcome Chamberlain

  • Hongwen Wu and Arec Freibott

     

  • Cheryl Ernst, Alika Maunakea, Jane Schoonmaker

  • Scientist of the Year Alika Maunakea

  • Wendy Lagareta and ARCS Light Roz Pearson

  • Wendhy Lagareta and ARCS Angel Jacquie Maly

  • New members Carol Stratford and Merilyn Gray

Scholar Update: Indigenous Scientist Haunani Kane

Haunani Kane headshot

“Climate issues are large global issues, but the solutions are really going to need to be locally based, driven by communities: community needs, and their vision for the future, as well as looking at our native people and the way that they have sustainably managed lands and their coastal resources,”

2017 Toby Lee ARCS Scholar Dr. Haunani Kane combines indigenous knowledge and modern scientific techniques in her work as Univrsity of Hawai‘i at Manoa assistant professor of earth sciences. Read more

Scholar Update: Marine Biologist Shayle Matsuda

Shayle Matsuda at ocean overlook“The increasing frequency and severity of global coral bleaching events, the devastation to reef ecosystems and the communities who rely on them led to my dedication to coral reef conservation.”

As a University of Hawai‘i at Manoa doctoral candidate, 2019 Honolulu ARCS Scholar Shayle Matsuda pioneered new molecular techniques to study symbioses between coral, algae and bacteria. He continues that work as part of an international coral reef restoration project under a 2021 David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellowship—a premier postdoctoral program in conservation science that supports early-career scientists and seeks solutions to the most pressing conservation challenges.

To Quote a Scholar: Julia Douglas

Julia Douglas headshot

"The generous support of the ARCS award facilitates both the completion of my PhD program and the establishment a long-term research component of my future career."

2024 Sarah Ann Martin ARCS Scholar Julia Douglas scales trees in Hawai‘i an Mexico to study endangered epiphytes growing in the canopies as part of her doctoral research in botany at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.